Borrowed Canon Pellix, an Interesting Detour
Flash back to the mid 1960s, Camera manufacturers were in a race to have the coolest camera on the market. While Nikon went the route to be the most reliable with the F and Nikkormat, other companies like Minolta and Topcon were pushing bounderies with TTL metering. Canon was looking for something to keep up with Nikon, they had a great rangefinder line based on Leica Screw Mount lenses but that platform was nearing the end. While the Canonflex was Canon's answer to the Nikon F, it wasn't keeping the engineers at Nippon Kogaku up at night, they were experimenting with different technologies. Here we have the Pellix, an interesting camera with what amounts to dead end technology. The Pellix has what's called a Pellicle mirror, meaning light can transmit through the mirror and hit the film plane. Big plus, there's no mirror mechanism going up and down, the mirror just stays there. Such technology would be great in Australia, The US Southwest, Middle East, Spain, Portuga...